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Poe herself admitted this little known fact on Thursday, April 7, after she was asked by reporters in Catarman, Northern Samar, to react to an online report.

This is Poe's first mention of her husband's US military stint since she declared her plans to run for president and throughout the past months that her citizenship was questioned before various bodies.

It was in 2013 when the couple mentioned in an interview that they lived inside an air base in Washington, DC, for a year after getting married in 1991.

“She actually lived in the base with me. We were in the base housing for about a year, then I didn’t re-enlist. So our son Brian was born in the US Air Force base,” Llamanzares told Pep.

Poe’s husband is a dual citizen of the Philippines and the United States since birth. Poe earlier vowed that her husband would renounce his foreign citizenship and assured the public there would be no “American boy” in Malacañang.

(My husband is a Filipino. A former president of our country even studied there, although he did not become a service person there. FVR was an effective president who ushered in development and economic growth.)

‘What happened to transparency?’

Asked to comment, political analyst Clarita Carlos said that while Poe did not technically lie, she noted that the presidential candidate apparently kept the information from the public.

(Why did you just tell it to us now, because it was already unearthed? There are already many issues against your citizenship. Now, you're saying it's a non-issue when it's an issue. He took an oath of allegiance.)

“Turn off. Why only now? You keep on talking about transparency. This leaves a bad taste in the mouth but then again I'm just 1 out of 54 million Filipinos,” Carlos said.

Carlos also questioned why Poe’s husband has yet to renounce his foreign citizenship, saying it would be "bad" for a First Gentleman to be a citizen of two countries – in the event the senator, a front runner in public opinion polls, wins the presidency.

"They can’t have their cake and eat it, too,” the analyst said.

‘Critical issue but not scandalous’

Political analyst Aries Arugay from the University of the Philippines, for his part, said the issue at hand is “critical” but not “scandalous.”

It’s serious, he said, because Poe revealed it only now. But, for him, it’s not entirely new, as Filipinos already know that Llamanzares is a US citizen.

“Sin of omission, yes, but the mere fact na inamin na...(she admitted it). So I don’t think there’s a scandal out of it,” Arugay told Rappler.

He also said Llamanzares’ stint in the US military should not be an issue considering the "good relations" of the US and the Philippines. – Rappler.com

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